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Simha Arom (born 1930) is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. His books include (1991) ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field recordings of the Aka Pygmy music.

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  • Simha Arom (* 16. August 1930 in Düsseldorf) ist ein französisch-israelischer Musikethnologe. Er hat sich auf die polyphone und polyrhythmische Musik der Zentralafrikanischen Republik spezialisiert und analysierte die orale Musiktradition der dortigen Pygmäen. (de)
  • Simha Arom (Düsseldorf, 16 de agosto de 1930)​ es un etnomusicólogo franco-israelí, experto en la música del África central, especialmente de la República Centroafricana. Arom tuvo en sus primeros contactos con los pigmeos a mediados de la década de 1960, y quedó fascinado por ellos.​ Entre 1971 y 1987 hizo visitas periódicas a los akas, cuya música estudió y se esforzó por conservar, consciente de cómo la modificación rápida de las formas de vida en África amenazaba con terminar con su tradición oral. En 2003, la tradición oral aka fue proclamada Obra Maestra Oral y Herencia Intangible de la Humanidad por la Unesco. Aparte de sus estudios africanos, Simha Arom se interesó por otras músicas de la tradición oral, como la liturgia judía (incluida la música de los judíos etíopes, los llamados Beta Israel o falashas) o el buzuki griego. Ha realizado numerosas grabaciones sonoras y audiovisuales de la polifonía y polirritmia del África Central y de otras tradiciones orales que ha investigado. Simha Arom es director emérito de investigación en el Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica (CNRS) y miembro de la Sociedad Francesa de Etnomusicología (SFM). Entre los numerosos reconocimientos que ha recibido por su labor, en 2008 recibió el premio de etnomusicología Fumio Koizumi.. (es)
  • Simha Arom, né le 16 août 1930 à Düsseldorf en Allemagne, est un ethnomusicologue, reconnu notamment comme expert des musiques d'Afrique centrale. (fr)
  • Simha Arom (born 1930) is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. His books include (1991) ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field recordings of the Aka Pygmy music. In the 1960s, Simha Arom was sent by the Government of Israel to establish a brass band in the Central African Republic. He became fascinated by the traditional music of this country, especially the vocal polyphonies of the Aka Pygmies. He entered the CNRS in 1968 and in 1984 he received its Silver Medal. He did field work every year from 1971 to 1991, accompanied by ethnolinguists and students, to record this music to study it and preserve it. Simha Arom was awarded a First Prize for French Horn at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris before becoming an ethnomusicologist. Using interactive experiments, he has worked on uncovering implicit musical systems and the way in which cultures build cognitive categories as attested in their music. His work is based on the postulate that, in order for it to be valid, data collected in the field must be corroborated by cognitive data specific to the holders of the culture studied.His research topics include the temporal organization of music, musical scales, polyphonic techniques, music in the social system and the elaboration of conceptual tools for the categorization, analysis and modeling of traditional music. From a mostly descriptive discipline, he has tried to build a science in the full sense of the word, with all of its attributes: experimentation, verification, validation, modeling, conceptualization and reconstitution by means of synthesis.He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities – particularly Montreal, UCLA, Vancouver, M.I.T., Cambridge (U.K.), Tel-Aviv, Bar-Ilan, Haifa, Basel, Zurich, Siena, and Venice, and his work has inspired contemporary composers2 such as Luciano Berio (Coro), György Ligeti, Steve Reich, Fabien Lévy and Fabian Panisello.Simha Arom is Research Director Emeritus at the CNRS, a founding member of the Société française d'ethnomusicologie, the Société française d'analyse musicale, the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology; he is also a member of the Société française de musicologie and the Board of directors of The Universe of Music project (UNESCO).His sound archives were deposited in 2011 at the sound library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Simha Arom was the subject of the 2014 documentary SIMHA by Jerome Blumberg. (en)
  • Simha Arom (Düsseldorf, 16 agosto 1930) è un etnomusicologo francese. Arom è un esperto di musiche dell'Africa centrale, in particolare di quelle della Repubblica Centrafricana. (it)
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  • Simha Arom (* 16. August 1930 in Düsseldorf) ist ein französisch-israelischer Musikethnologe. Er hat sich auf die polyphone und polyrhythmische Musik der Zentralafrikanischen Republik spezialisiert und analysierte die orale Musiktradition der dortigen Pygmäen. (de)
  • Simha Arom, né le 16 août 1930 à Düsseldorf en Allemagne, est un ethnomusicologue, reconnu notamment comme expert des musiques d'Afrique centrale. (fr)
  • Simha Arom (Düsseldorf, 16 agosto 1930) è un etnomusicologo francese. Arom è un esperto di musiche dell'Africa centrale, in particolare di quelle della Repubblica Centrafricana. (it)
  • Simha Arom (Düsseldorf, 16 de agosto de 1930)​ es un etnomusicólogo franco-israelí, experto en la música del África central, especialmente de la República Centroafricana. Arom tuvo en sus primeros contactos con los pigmeos a mediados de la década de 1960, y quedó fascinado por ellos.​ Entre 1971 y 1987 hizo visitas periódicas a los akas, cuya música estudió y se esforzó por conservar, consciente de cómo la modificación rápida de las formas de vida en África amenazaba con terminar con su tradición oral. En 2003, la tradición oral aka fue proclamada Obra Maestra Oral y Herencia Intangible de la Humanidad por la Unesco. (es)
  • Simha Arom (born 1930) is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic. His books include (1991) ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field recordings of the Aka Pygmy music. (en)
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